iv just spent pretty much the whole day trying to install gentoo, and i finally got to the rebooting stage where i felt i had it in the bag and was finally about to finish, but now as soon as i rebooted it came up with grub>_ waiting for me to enter something, is this normal or have i done something wrong.

iv just spent pretty much the whole day trying to install gentoo, and i finally got to the rebooting stage where i felt i had it in the bag and was finally about to finish, but now as soon as i rebooted it came up with grub>_ waiting for me to enter something, is this normal or have i done something wrong.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

thanks

No error messages?

If grub starts after reboot I think you messed up something with grub.conf so recheck it with manual:

This sounds like a good idea however how do i get from livecd root # to the part where i can change the conf grub file. ( i think its something like
(chroot) livecd #)

cheers

You need to mount your primary disk which containst the gentoo installation. And then mount /proc and /dev so you can chroot inside it.
Assuming that /dev/sda1 is the partition where you installed gentoo, you do this:

thanks for the great replies i managed to get onto my grub.conf, however im not so sure whats causing the problem i have, this is my grub.conf. (sorry i had to type it out manually but this is basically what i can see)

when i press any key it takes me back to where i choose the OS, im guessing its got something to do with the grub.conf, iv uncommented everything though, so its something iv propably left out, i decided to put this problem i have on the same topic as my last problem so you can see my grub.conf, its basically the same, except i commented out the stuff that needed commenting out.